AN IMPROVISING COLLECTIVE
COMPRISING LEE RANALDO, ALAN
LICHT, ULRICH KRIEGER AND TIM
BARNES CREATE FIERY SOUNDSCAPES
INSPIRED BY THE FILMS OF STAN BRAKHAGE,
ONE OF CINEMA’S TRUE MASTERS OF THE
AVANT-GARDE.
Music
First formed in 2001, the Text of Light ensemble
have created an entirely novel approach to crossmedia exploration, bringing together a unique
collection of legendary musicians to collaborate
with the works of revered experimental
filmmaker Stan Brakhage.
As Brakhage’s masterful, poetic imagery is
projected across a screen, guitarists Ranaldo and
Licht, saxophonist Krieger and percussionist
Barnes weave together arcing walls of sonic form
and fuzz, order and chaos, melody and noise.
But this is no mere exercise in live soundtracking:
Text of Light is a spontaneous and ever-evolving
audio-visual c